Saturday, March 24, 2007

Psalm 7 (NRSV)

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Verse ¹O Lord my God, in you I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me,

Verse ²or like a lion they will tear me apart; they will drag me away, with no one to rescue.

Verse ³O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,

Verse ⁴if I have repaid my ally with harm or plundered my foe without cause,

Verse ⁵then let the enemy pursue and overtake me, trample my life to the ground, and lay my soul in the dust. Selah

Verse ⁶Rise up, O Lord, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake, O my God; you have appointed a judgment.

Verse ⁷Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered around you, and over it take your seat on high.

Verse ⁸The Lord judges the peoples; judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.

Verse ⁹O let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous, you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God.

Verse ¹⁰God is my shield, who saves the upright in heart.

Verse ¹¹God is a righteous judge, and a God who has indignation every day.

Verse ¹²If one does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;

Verse ¹³he has prepared his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.

Verse ¹⁴See how they conceive evil, and are pregnant with mischief, and bring forth lies.

Verse ¹⁵They make a pit, digging it out, and fall into the hole that they have made.

Verse ¹⁶Their mischief returns upon their own heads, and on their own heads their violence descends.

Verse ¹⁷I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness, and sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.